𝕄𝕚 𝕟𝕚ñ𝕒 𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕞𝕠𝕤𝕒/ 𝕒 𝕔𝕒𝕞𝕚𝕝𝕠 𝕩 𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕕𝕖𝕣

Chapter 4

Small a/n
So school is starting again, I'm gonna try my best to keep a chapter a day but keeping up when the school cell reception is slower than 85% of the tall population at school is hard. But people are liking it so imma keep it up. Love you guys ❤️
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Camilo's pov
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Me and y/n we're walking around her e/c eyes were still red from crying she reminded me a lot of Luisa, her older sister ability to just hold things in breaks my heart she has had a hard time adjusting to her cousins moving in too, despite her not saying it I know that's what she's thinking, I wanted to make her feel better, make her feel like her family problems aren't gonna define her. She looks at me her faint smile was barely there, she looked like she'd been forcing a smile her whole life "Camilo I'm fine now" she said and I stopped where I was grabbing her hand to make her stop as well

I grabbed her cheek "No your not, and that's ok Y/n you can't fake a smile everyday and I can understand why" I said looking into her e/c orbs they still looked defeated her smile wasn't  plastered on her face but I wanted to see it again, her smile could make anyone jealous her smile never showed her teeth and made her eyes squint her eye brows would go up and it just felt like the summer sun shining on me. "I think it's not a big deal Camilo" she says "it is though, and as much as I hate to say this, your Abuelo is really abusive." I say my voice Stern to get it into her head that it's not ok to be treated like that

"You don't get to do fun things, your busy being a care giver, while your brother, sister and cousins get to do what they want" I say anger now coated my voice "Camilo, I don't think you understand how the Lyine family house hold works." She said back "then explain it to me!" I raised my voice slightly "the way my Abuelo treats me is how he treated my Abuela that's why she left him." She said but before I could respond

"When my mom was 13 and my aunt was 15, Abuela died and they had to go and live with him" she says her voice was getting shaky and I walked with her to a bench and when we sat down she started again "My aunt was told to do the difficult chores, the ones I have to deal with I had a Uncle but he left because of how abuelo treated my mom and aunt" she said "what do you mean" she looks at me "he chooses a daughter at random to do chores and they must stick with them the only things my brother and cousins have to do is cook" she said.

Suddenly a group of boys walked passed behind us and I saw one boy stare at me then look at her then went back to his friends "all I'm saying I pulled the shorter straw" she says "my aunt said if I ever got that unlucky that I needed to put on a smile if I resisted anything then I would get hurt" she said looking down at her hands "has he ever put a hand on you?" She didn't answer "y/n, did he touch you?" She couldn't say anything but she nodded her head, she opened her mouth but closed it "I was tired one morning because I had been up doing chores for him and when he walked into my room to ask me to get up and get stuff from the market I told him to ask Kaytlyn and he..." her voice trailed off getting shakier "what did he do y/n" I ask concern coating my voice

"He grabbed me by my arm and dragged me down the stairs, after we made it down the stairs he threatened to hurt me if I talked back again" she said anger started to boil in me as I listened "I've never cried in front of him and I've taken blows for Lee" she continued "what do you mean" I asked "There was a night Lee couldn't sleep because he thought he saw a monster under his bed he cried for an hour before it woke me up" she said "When I got up to go see what was wrong abuelo beat me to it except he was holding something I think it was his belt, I ran to get in front of Lee and I managed right before he started to hurt Lee" she said "how old is Lee he seems really young" "he's almost four" she quickly responded

"Wow he's really good at talking for his age" I said a smile suddenly presented itself on her face 'god I missed that smile' I thought to myself and then it hit me "you've been teaching him haven't you?" I asked and she nodded "he's a really quick learner just like his mom" she said and I gave her a small smile "do you even have free time with everything you do?" I asked "on weekdays no, weekends I only go to the market and get food for the week" she said and I looked at her amazed "you do all that and your abuelo doesn't give you a break?" I asked my questions were infinite I had so many but I wasn't gonna bombarded her with all of them

I stood up "we have to get you out of that house I say hands on my hips and then I heard a laugh from behind me it was Luisa and Mirabel "what are you two doing here?" I asked "spying on you duh" Mirabel responded and Luisa shook her head "we finished our chores so we wanted to find you" Luisia said I smiled and sat back down "we were talking about personal stuff but yeah sure come sit" I said hoping that y/n didn't mind "yeah we heard it all" Mirabel said y/n's eyes got big and looked at me and I looked at her tears were forming in her eyes "hey hey, it's ok, you're ok" I said putting my forehead against her's